Lives Lost: ‘A nightmare,’ says parishioner who lost parents
NEW YORK (AP) — Reyna Martinez kept silent when the coronavirus killed her mother. She would hide in a bathroom and cry to keep the secret from her father.
Then, the virus killed him, and she mourned again in silence because she felt it would crush her 9-year-old daughter to know that her doting grandparents, who she lived with and were helping to raise her, were gone.
“I wish I could wake up and that this was all just a dream,” Martinez said. “A nightmare.”